Word: precisionism
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More to the point, Ariadne's music has the blush of innocent freshness to it.It floats from atonality to tonality and back with dramatic precision, bringing to life the libretto's strange world and humanizing its perplexed cast of characters.
The military becomes more of a metaphor for Scorton's life than running was for the delinquent in Sillitoe's earlier book, sometimes to the detriment of Widower's Son. Sillitoe tries to convey the idea of a gunnery officer's precision-oriented life with the most heavy-handed, redundant...
Some 150 aeronauts took their airships to Indianola, Iowa, this month for the twelfth Balloon Federation of America's national hot-air balloon championships. They competed in events testing precision flying, wafting in gaudy splendor over the rolling farm lands. Former B.F.A. President Bruce Comstock, who practices three times...
Although he achieved fame in the 1950s as one of England's Angry Young Men, Author Alan Sillitoe never lost his temper in his books. The working-class characters in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1959) and Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1960) did indeed rail at the...
In the Senate, the fight against the bomb was led by Oregon's Republican Senator Mark Hatfield, whose chief worry was that the very precision of the weapon invites its use and would encourage escalation of conventional conflict into nuclear holocaust. Agreed Iowa Democrat Dick Clark: "I find the...